A CHINESE BLANC DE CHINE LIBATION CUP

A CHINESE BLANC DE CHINE LIBATION CUP

17TH CENTURY

Shaped as a rhinoceros horn cup, moulded in relief with dragons, a deer, pine and prunus set beneath overhanging rocks, 15.3cm.

Provenance: formerly a private collection, Midhurst.

Cf. B Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, p.184, no.607 for a comparable cup; see also J Getulia Veiga, Chinese Export Porcelain in Private Brazilian Collections, pp.70-71, nos.43-44 for further related examples.